AN USHAK MEDALLION CARPET

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AN USHAK MEDALLION CARPET
WEST ANATOLIA, 17TH CENTURY

The abrashed red field with blue tracery palmette vine around a large hexagonal blue medallion cointaining arabesques and open similar panels, the dark brown pendants with arabesques, each corner with a sea-green part cusped medallion containing similar motifs, in a shaded indigo border of palmettes and floral sprays with inner light blue S-motif stripe, reselvaged, missing outer guard stripe, repiled browns, slight other repairs, four patch repairs to border
Approximately 12ft.3in. x 6ft.2in. (373cm.x 188cm.)

Warp: white wool, Z2S, sometimes one strand white and one brownish black, hardly to slightly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots wool, pink, red and dark red, Z1, one undulating, the other strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2S, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H2.5 x V3.1/cm.
Remarks: lazy lines, supplementary shoots

Provenance

Frieda Callman, New York
Acquired from above 12 July 1956 as an "Uschak" for DM2,416

Lot Essay

See the introductory essay for a discussion of the Ushak Medallion group. The present example, while fairly late in date, remains in good enough physical condition to be enjoyed as a decorative carpet in the Western traditions dating back to the sixteenth century.

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